"If it will please ye, then Sam it is," Callum said genially, favoring Sam with a polite bow of the head.? "Ah am actually something of a newcomer here myself. My family were not the original holders of the estate. We married into the family when the last laird of the old family failed to produce a male heir and had but two daughters to continue the family line with.? One of them, the younger one, was, ah believe, an ancestor of yours."

"But the castle is far older than that," Callum went on, gesturing at the surrounding grounds as he began walking Sam around the estate.? "The oldest parts date back to the time of the first Stuarts. Before the ones ye most likely know of when they became monarchs of the United Kingdom. But as ye can see, more was added as the years passed. The lairds of this estate were uncommon lucky that the wars that beset much of the land at that time did not reach the walls of this particular castle. Which allowed the lairds of the time the luxury of choosing to enhance its more esthetic qualities rather than its defensive ones."

Scheherezade, Friends

Scheherezade smiled as the walked listening and absorbing everything he was saying. “It’s beautiful. I love the gardens. I can tell they were once so beautiful. I want to make them beautiful again.”

When he mentioned her ancestor, she nodded.??“Yes, her name is Aroywn Janines. Apparently when she arrived in America she had nothing and went to work in the home of a wealthy family in New York City. She married the oldest son.”Jaimie showed me her portrait. My friends think I look a lot like her.”

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